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by_emR3 SaVSaK.CoM
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Posted online: Saturday, September 17, 2005 at 3:14:50 PM
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The remnants of the Taliban that are said to be regrouping and making a bid to regain its foothold in democratic Afghanistan have come up with their own constitution and say they will implement it after wresting control of the country from the US-backed Afghan government.
The rebels do not recognise President Hamid Karzai's government, formed under the new constitution passed by the Loya Jirga grand council last January.
The 66-page Taliban constitution says Afghanistan is a free, independent, united and inseparable country, whose official government's name is Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
"The Islamic Emirate's supreme leader will be called 'Amirul Momineen', who should be a knowledgeable Afghan national. All laws of the country would be brought in conformity with Islamic shariah (laws)."
The document, written in Pushtu and Dari - the two main languages spoken in Afghanistan - carries the emblem of the 'Emirate of Afghanistan', used during the previous Taliban regime.
A copy of the constitution was made available to some media organizations here.
The battered outfit had also stepped up attacks on candidates contesting Sunday's elections and security agencies in the Pushtun-dominated areas in the southern and eastern provinces bordering Pakistan.
A total of 12.4 million voters - 44 percent of them women - are entitled to exercise their franchise in the elections to the 249 Wolesi Jirga (lower house of parliament) and 69 provincial council seats Sunday.
Meanwhile, there have been serious doubts over the functioning of the election-conducting panel after it left Taliban leaders unscathed in its disqualification of contestants on grounds of having underground links.
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